“Becoming more callous and hardened when God thunders verbally from heaven, they obstinately persist in their rebellion. It is only when actually smitten by his hand that they are forced, whether they will or not, to fear. This fear the sacred writers term servile, and oppose to the free and voluntary fear which becomes sons.”

Book 3, Chapter 2, Section 27, p. 480
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

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